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Introducing Adaptive Intelligence: undermining the economics of every bot attack
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Cloudflare launched Adaptive Intelligence, a bot detection engine that uses non-deterministic, statistical judgments and disposable rules to make automated attacks slow and costly, reversing the economic advantage attackers have had.
For engineers defending web properties, this changes the assumption that bot detection is a static wall. Adaptive Intelligence treats detection as a statistical judgment that changes over time, so attackers cannot learn a fixed rule to bypass. It also allows Cloudflare to recognize bots without visibly reacting, starving attackers of feedback they use to adapt.
Written by elseif from the cluster below · every claim links back to a sourceThe three things worth knowing
Adaptive Intelligence is non-deterministic, weighing many signals at once rather than using fixed rules.
It can detect a bot without visibly reacting, so attackers don't know they've been spotted.
The engine aims to make adaptation costlier for attackers than for defenders, reversing the economics of bot attacks.
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